Paper and paperboard — Production, per capita by country
Paper and paperboard — Production divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Countries reporting
117
Highest
1.23 t per person
Finland
Lowest
0 t per person
Zimbabwe
Median
0.0135 t per person
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
5,849
What the numbers show
Paper and paperboard — Production, per capita is currently reported for 117 countries. The highest value is 1.23 t per person in Finland; the lowest is 0 t per person in Zimbabwe.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.0135 t per person, and the mean is 0.0598 t per person.
Over the past decade 37 countries rose and 69 fell. The largest increase was in Montenegro (up 816.6%), and the largest decrease in Cameroon (down 100.0%).
Paper and paperboard — Production, per capita: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finland | 1.23 t per person | 2024 | down 35.3% | rising |
| 2 | Sweden | 0.7633 t per person | 2024 | down 29.0% | rising |
| 3 | Austria | 0.4966 t per person | 2024 | down 12.8% | volatile |
| 4 | Slovenia | 0.2722 t per person | 2024 | down 21.6% | rising |
| 5 | Germany | 0.2298 t per person | 2024 | down 17.4% | rising |
| 6 | Canada | 0.2024 t per person | 2024 | down 33.4% | falling |
| 7 | Norway | 0.1839 t per person | 2024 | down 7.6% | falling |
| 8 | United States | 0.1837 t per person | 2024 | down 19.8% | rising |
| 9 | Japan | 0.1766 t per person | 2024 | down 15.6% | rising |
| 10 | Portugal | 0.1765 t per person | 2024 | down 16.0% | volatile |
| 11 | Slovakia | 0.1762 t per person | 2024 | up 20.4% | rising |
| 12 | Italy | 0.1353 t per person | 2024 | down 5.6% | rising |
| 13 | Spain | 0.1343 t per person | 2024 | up 3.4% | rising |
| 14 | Poland | 0.1343 t per person | 2024 | up 19.3% | volatile |
| 15 | Belgium | 0.1143 t per person | 2024 | down 37.3% | falling |
| 16 | Switzerland | 0.1066 t per person | 2024 | down 30.6% | rising |
| 17 | Hungary | 0.103 t per person | 2024 | up 32.4% | rising |
| 18 | New Zealand | 0.1008 t per person | 2024 | down 37.3% | flat |
| 19 | China | 0.0996 t per person | 2024 | up 25.6% | volatile |
| 20 | Australia | 0.0975 t per person | 2024 | down 25.6% | rising |
| 21 | France | 0.0969 t per person | 2024 | down 20.7% | rising |
| 22 | Croatia | 0.0947 t per person | 2024 | up 50.7% | rising |
| 23 | Malaysia | 0.0849 t per person | 2024 | up 49.0% | volatile |
| 24 | Czechia | 0.0813 t per person | 2024 | up 24.8% | flat |
| 25 | Thailand | 0.0758 t per person | 2024 | up 17.6% | volatile |
| 26 | Russia | 0.0748 t per person | 2024 | up 34.6% | rising |
| 27 | Serbia | 0.0732 t per person | 2024 | up 7.2% | rising |
| 28 | Chile | 0.0667 t per person | 2024 | down 3.2% | rising |
| 29 | Bulgaria | 0.0578 t per person | 2024 | up 18.3% | rising |
| 30 | Brazil | 0.0534 t per person | 2024 | up 2.8% | rising |
| 31 | Greece | 0.0494 t per person | 2024 | up 31.6% | rising |
| 32 | Mexico | 0.0491 t per person | 2024 | up 21.1% | rising |
| 33 | Lithuania | 0.0489 t per person | 2024 | up 3.0% | volatile |
| 34 | Costa Rica | 0.0488 t per person | 2024 | down 8.6% | volatile |
| 35 | United Kingdom | 0.0474 t per person | 2024 | down 30.3% | falling |
| 36 | Romania | 0.0442 t per person | 2024 | up 107.7% | rising |
| 37 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.0422 t per person | 2024 | up 42.0% | rising |
| 38 | Indonesia | 0.0422 t per person | 2024 | up 5.2% | volatile |
| 39 | Israel | 0.0403 t per person | 2024 | down 17.9% | rising |
| 40 | Eswatini | 0.0394 t per person | 2024 | down 8.6% | falling |
| 41 | Belarus | 0.0391 t per person | 2024 | up 11.0% | rising |
| 42 | Argentina | 0.0381 t per person | 2024 | up 33.9% | rising |
| 43 | Estonia | 0.0359 t per person | 2024 | down 35.8% | rising |
| 44 | Saudi Arabia | 0.0336 t per person | 2024 | down 19.8% | volatile |
| 45 | Turkey | 0.0324 t per person | 2024 | down 13.7% | volatile |
| 46 | South Africa | 0.0281 t per person | 2024 | down 30.8% | rising |
| 47 | United Arab Emirates | 0.0277 t per person | 2024 | down 9.3% | rising |
| 48 | Vietnam | 0.0275 t per person | 2024 | up 87.0% | volatile |
| 49 | Ukraine | 0.0259 t per person | 2024 | up 10.5% | volatile |
| 50 | Denmark | 0.0254 t per person | 2024 | down 70.2% | rising |
| 51 | Colombia | 0.0231 t per person | 2024 | down 10.8% | rising |
| 52 | Lebanon | 0.0177 t per person | 2024 | up 9.3% | rising |
| 53 | North Macedonia | 0.017 t per person | 2024 | up 30.3% | rising |
| 54 | Uruguay | 0.0157 t per person | 2024 | down 55.9% | rising |
| 55 | India | 0.0154 t per person | 2024 | up 39.6% | volatile |
| 56 | Singapore | 0.0144 t per person | 2024 | down 9.4% | volatile |
| 57 | Kuwait | 0.0137 t per person | 2024 | down 25.1% | falling |
| 58 | El Salvador | 0.0135 t per person | 2024 | down 27.8% | volatile |
| 59 | Ecuador | 0.0135 t per person | 2024 | down 11.6% | volatile |
| 60 | Tunisia | 0.0133 t per person | 2024 | up 8.5% | volatile |
| 61 | Kazakhstan | 0.013 t per person | 2024 | up 5.0% | rising |
| 62 | Bhutan | 0.0126 t per person | 2024 | down 7.4% | falling |
| 63 | Peru | 0.0124 t per person | 2024 | down 0.8% | rising |
| 64 | Latvia | 0.0123 t per person | 2024 | down 38.8% | volatile |
| 65 | Georgia | 0.0119 t per person | 2024 | up 221.4% | volatile |
| 66 | Dominican Republic | 0.0114 t per person | 2024 | down 9.7% | volatile |
| 67 | Ireland | 0.0111 t per person | 2024 | down 13.7% | volatile |
| 68 | Trinidad and Tobago | 0.011 t per person | 2024 | up 47.5% | rising |
| 69 | Paraguay | 0.0097 t per person | 2024 | up 351.5% | volatile |
| 70 | Armenia | 0.0092 t per person | 2024 | up 181.6% | volatile |
| 71 | Bahrain | 0.0076 t per person | 2024 | down 17.3% | falling |
| 72 | Barbados | 0.0071 t per person | 2024 | down 1.5% | flat |
| 73 | Philippines | 0.0065 t per person | 2024 | down 15.8% | rising |
| 74 | Honduras | 0.0064 t per person | 2024 | down 22.1% | falling |
| 75 | Egypt | 0.0061 t per person | 2024 | down 10.0% | rising |
| 76 | Albania | 0.0053 t per person | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 77 | Azerbaijan | 0.005 t per person | 2024 | up 513.5% | volatile |
| 78 | Jordan | 0.0047 t per person | 2024 | down 23.9% | rising |
| 79 | Morocco | 0.0041 t per person | 2024 | down 10.2% | rising |
| 80 | Myanmar | 0.0034 t per person | 2024 | up 278.8% | volatile |
| 81 | Montenegro | 0.0033 t per person | 2024 | up 816.6% | volatile |
| 82 | Pakistan | 0.0032 t per person | 2024 | down 26.2% | volatile |
| 83 | Syria | 0.003 t per person | 2024 | down 17.8% | volatile |
| 84 | Moldova | 0.0028 t per person | 2024 | down 1.6% | volatile |
| 85 | Mali | 0.0023 t per person | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 86 | Uzbekistan | 0.002 t per person | 2024 | up 116.6% | volatile |
| 87 | Guatemala | 0.0017 t per person | 2024 | down 14.8% | falling |
| 88 | Cuba | 0.0014 t per person | 2024 | down 48.3% | volatile |
| 89 | Algeria | 0.0014 t per person | 2024 | up 14.4% | volatile |
| 90 | Sri Lanka | 0.0011 t per person | 2024 | down 5.2% | rising |
| 91 | Qatar | 0.001 t per person | 2024 | down 24.7% | falling |
| 92 | Madagascar | 0.001 t per person | 2024 | down 61.3% | volatile |
| 93 | Libya | 0.0008 t per person | 2024 | down 12.9% | falling |
| 94 | Oman | 0.0008 t per person | 2024 | down 24.2% | falling |
| 95 | Ethiopia | 0.0006 t per person | 2024 | down 23.4% | volatile |
| 96 | Congo | 0.0005 t per person | 2024 | down 21.4% | volatile |
| 97 | Nepal | 0.0004 t per person | 2024 | down 6.7% | volatile |
| 98 | Bangladesh | 0.0003 t per person | 2024 | down 9.0% | falling |
| 99 | Iraq | 0.0003 t per person | 2024 | down 20.6% | volatile |
| 100 | Mauritania | 0.0002 t per person | 2024 | down 25.6% | falling |
| 101 | Kyrgyzstan | 0.0001 t per person | 2024 | down 10.4% | volatile |
| 102 | Sudan | 0.0001 t per person | 2024 | down 23.0% | rising |
| 103 | Mozambique | 0.0001 t per person | 2024 | down 25.5% | volatile |
| 104 | Zambia | 0 t per person | 2024 | down 62.7% | volatile |
| 105 | Burkina Faso | 0 t per person | 2024 | down 22.6% | falling |
| 106 | Senegal | 0 t per person | 2024 | down 23.5% | falling |
| 107 | Angola | 0 t per person | 1997 | — | volatile |
| 107 | Cameroon | 0 t per person | 1997 | down 100.0% | falling |
| 107 | Jamaica | 0 t per person | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 107 | Kenya | 0 t per person | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 107 | Cambodia | 0 t per person | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 107 | Luxembourg | 0 t per person | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 107 | Nigeria | 0 t per person | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 107 | Panama | 0 t per person | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 107 | Uganda | 0 t per person | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 107 | Yemen | 0 t per person | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 107 | Zimbabwe | 0 t per person | 2024 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 0.052 t per person
How this figure is calculated
Paper and paperboard — Production divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Paper and paperboard — Production ÷ Population, total
Computed from
- Paper and paperboard — Production Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Population, total World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN)
Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.
About this data
Paper and paperboard — Production divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.